Martin Hunter
Canadian Wilds
Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664595768
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.
CHAPTER II. THE "FREE TRADER."
CHAPTER III. OUTFITTING INDIANS.
CHAPTER IV. TRACKERS OF THE NORTH.
CHAPTER V. PROVISIONS FOR THE WILDERNESS.
CHAPTER VIII. WHOLESOME FOODS.
CHAPTER IX. OFFICERS' ALLOWANCES.
CHAPTER XI. INDIAN MODE OF HUNTING BEAVER.
CHAPTER XII. INDIAN MODE OF HUNTING LYNX AND MARTEN.
CHAPTER XIII. INDIAN MODES OF HUNTING FOXES.
CHAPTER XIV. INDIAN MODES OF HUNTING OTTER AND MUSQUASH.
CHAPTER XV. REMARKABLE SUCCESS.
CHAPTER XVII. ANTICOSTA AND ITS FURS.
CHAPTER XVIII. CHISELLING AND SHOOTING BEAVER.
CHAPTER XIX. THE INDIAN DEVIL.
CHAPTER XXI. THE CARE OF BLISTERED FEET.
CHAPTER XXIII. A CASE OF NERVE.
CHAPTER XXIV. AMPHIBIOUS COMBATS.
CHAPTER XXV. ART OF PULLING HEARTS.
CHAPTER XXVII. INDIANS ARE POOR SHOTS.
CHAPTER XXVIII. A BEAR IN THE WATER.
CHAPTER XXX. THE BRASS-EYED DUCK.
CHAPTER XXXI. GOOD WAGES TRAPPING.
CHAPTER XXXII. A PARD NECESSARY.
CHAPTER XXXIII. AN HEROIC ADVENTURE.
CHAPTER XXXV. LONG LAKE INDIANS.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE MISHAPS OF RALSON.
INTRODUCTION.
By the courtesy of Forest and Stream and Hunter-Trader-Trapper these articles are republished in book form by the author.
I have been induced to bring them out a second time under one cover by the frequent requests of my fellow bushmen who were kind enough to criticise them favorably when they first appeared in the magazine.
In this preamble I think it proper and possibly interesting to the reader to have a short synopsis of my career.
I entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1863 as a clerk and retired in 1903 a commissioned officer of twenty years' standing.
The modes of Trapping and Hunting were learned directly by personal participation in the chase with the Indians and the other stories heard first hand from the red man.
My service in the employ of the Great Fur Company extended from Labrador in the East to Fort William on Lake Superior in the West and from the valley of the St. Lawrence in the South to the headwaters of its feeders in the North.
By canoes and snowshoes I have traveled on the principal large rivers flowing south from the height of land, among them I may mention the Moisee, Bersimis, St. Maurice, Ottawa, Michipocoten, Pic and Nepigon.
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